I think its good to stimulate your mind.

You can create your own miracle, but you do it by never looking past all the little steps along the way.

I have been here before in my head. To everyone else, it is my first Olympics. To me, it's my thousandth.

I may have become a world champion quicker than most, but people should look at me and realise there are all kinds of ways to get where you want to go. Because we didn't plan it. We just did it.

A perfect day for me would just be a day that goes the way I plan.

I was lucky enough that my parents knew about World Cup skiing, so since I was really little, we were watching World Cup winning runs.

When I was 3 years old, I thought I was very good at skiing.

I remember skiing being a family recreational thing.

I love traveling and seeing new things, learning the histories of different cultures. But I've always wanted to go to the Galapagos to see the giant turtles.

Her mouth connected with his. Everything inside her collapsed and was constructed, simultaneously.

Education is acquisition of intellectual knowledge to be what we ought to be.

Hurts not transformed are transferred. Let your hurts bring on healing.

The man of science multiples the points of contact between man and nature.

I knew I would read all kinds of books and try to get at what it is that makes good writers good. But I made no promises that I would write books a lot of people would like to read.

If you learn music you'll learn most all there is to know.

I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense.

Don't be afraid to take a chance, to jump. Because death will always swallow you up anyway. Death is a friend; it encourages us to become aware, to become free.

I always do my draft in long hand because even the ink is part of the flow.

Even when love isn't enough...somehow it is.